![]() Yet if you asked Leonard how he managed to pull it off, he had no answer. "In the background, you could see the pool and the tennis court, and I'd be like, 'This guy has got it. ![]() and I'd be wearing gray pants and a blazer and a tie, and I'd stop over and see Elmore and he would be wearing jeans and sandals and a Nine Inch Nails T-shirt," Peter Leonard recalled in a 2009 interview. "I remember at times leaving my office after having come back from a meeting. That realization was confirmed again and again over the decades as the elder Leonard grew into one of the most recognizable writers in the world, a balding, bookish, bespectacled man whose books resonated in American pop culture decades after they appeared like spotlights in a pitch-black sky. ![]() Peter Leonard first figured out his father was cooler than most anyone else at an early age, when he was crawling around under the church pew and noticed Elmore Leonard's ultra-mod ankle boots - you know, the kind with the zipper on the side - back in the 1960s. ![]()
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